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The Secret Memory of Plants
In a quiet lab, Gagliano trained a mimosa plant — the kind that folds when touched — to stop reacting to harmless drops of water. Weeks later, the plant still remembered: no folding, no fear. No brain, but a clear sign of learning and memory.
Plants are not just passive objects of our curiosity. They perceive, they learn, they remember, and they decide.— Monica Gagliano
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The thinker
Pioneer of plant intelligence
Dr. Monica Gagliano is an evolutionary ecologist known for her experiments on learning and memory in plants. Her research at the University of Western Australia challenges the belief that intelligence requires a brain.
Based on Do Plants Think? – Scientific American on Monica Gagliano’s research, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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